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Category: Michigan History

Articles, features, and posts about Michigan history and past events that shaped the state.

The Strange But True Story On How A Msu Professor Created Spring Break
Michaela Nolte March 7, 2022

The Strange But True Story On How A MSU Professor Created Spring Break

An MSU professor wrote a book entitled Where the Boys Are. The subsequent movie made the yearly college Spring Break a cultural phenomenon for over 50 years.
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Early Days At Grindstone City
Paul Austin February 6, 2022

Early Days at Grindstone City

Captain Aaron Peer founded Grindstone City as a company with quarry operations in 1834. Peer, is one of the earliest settlers of Huron County and holds title to many of the "firsts" in the Upper Thumb.
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11 Michigan Indian Trails We Travel Everyday
Paul Austin January 27, 2022

11 Michigan Indian Trails We Travel Everyday

The major roads and highways that we take for granted were once Michigan Indian Trails. The routes were perfect. Chances are you traveled on one of those ancient trails today.
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Route Map Of The Pere Marquette Railway For Michigan’S Summer Resorts 1913
Paul Austin January 27, 2022

Route Map of the Pere Marquette Railway for Michigan’s Summer Resorts 1913

A large Midwest map of the Pere Marquette Railway for Michigan's Summer Resorts 1913
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President Nixon Visits Bad Axe Michigan, April 10, 1974
Paul Austin January 25, 2022

President Nixon Visits Bad Axe Michigan, April 10, 1974

President Nixion visits Bad Axe Michigan to campaign for a special election during April 1974, just days before the Watergate scandal hits his administration.
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Port Crescent Sand And Fill Operations
Paul Austin January 25, 2022

Port Crescent Sand and Fill Operations

After the lumber industry collapsed in Michigan during the 1880s. The town of Port Crescent was abandoned and most buildings moved. Sand operations started for glass making.
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Michigan Plank Roads Craze Covered The State In The 1800S
Michaela Nolte October 21, 2021

Michigan Plank Roads Craze Covered the State in The 1800s

In the late 1840s, Michigan experienced a craze of building plank roads. Over 200 companies built over 5000 miles of plank roads.
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Henry Ford Charcoal – If You Really Like To Bbq, Thank Ford Motor!
Michaela Nolte April 16, 2021

Henry Ford Charcoal – If You Really Like to BBQ, Thank Ford Motor!

Henry Ford was instrumental in the development of the charcoal market in the 1920s to market leisure motoring.
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Belle Isle State Park Works To Restore Historic Sawmill
Paul Austin January 22, 2021

Belle Isle State Park Works To Restore Historic Sawmill

For decades, City of Detroit foresters industriously labored away in a quaint sawmill within Belle Isle Park, giving trees from streets and parks new life as usable wood after they were removed for road widening or death from disease, pests, or storms.
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Pigeon Michigan Amusement Parlor C1900
Paul Austin July 1, 2020

Pigeon Michigan Amusement Parlor c1900

This picture of a street scene in Pigeon, Michigan is thought to be taken right around 1900. The amusement parlor or penny arcade was popular in the 1890s through the early 1900s. These storefront shops were stocked with slot machines, phonographs, muscle testing machines, guess your …
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